The Americans and the British have an interesting tradition, which you have probably seen more than once in the movies - to wear something old, something blue, something knitted and borrowed to a wedding.

It sounds like a poem in the original:

Something old and something new, 

something borrowed 

and something blue. 

It is believed that if the bride wears all this at her wedding, she will definitely be pampered (even Princess Kate followed this tradition at her wedding).

But a girl named

Ellie Livingwater

, from the American town of Turners Falls, was pampered even before the wedding, because her "something old and borrowed" became nothing more than a luxurious wedding dress of her beloved grandmother.

Ellie found the outfit completely by accident back in 2016, when she was rummaging in the basement and putting things together.

The dress had been in a huge black garbage bag since 1961, when her grandmother

Ann Cook

married the love of her life.

When Ellie saw the dress for the first time as a schoolgirl, she knew right away that this was the outfit she would one day walk down the aisle in.

And so it happened.

Last year, on September 25, she married Timothy Livingwater in her hometown in this gorgeous outfit.

The dress had a voluminous skirt decorated with lace, as well as long lace sleeves.

It fit Ellie's figure perfectly and didn't need any alterations.

It was only cleaned before the wedding, because it had been in the basement for 60 years.

"My grandmother couldn't believe that I decided to wear her dress. She kept it in an old garbage bag because she didn't think it was anything special. But it was for me. She cried when she first saw me in my big day. It was an incredible moment that I will cherish forever," the girl admitted, writes the Daily Mail.

For the bride, wearing the dress of her beloved grandmother was an important decision, because she literally grew up before her eyes.

After the death of Ann's husband, with whom she had been married for 38 years, her son's family moved in with her.

Ellie had never seen her grandfather, but she always knew that he and her grandmother had a strong marriage and loved each other very much, so she believed that this dress would become her talisman on such an important day and make her marriage with Timothy also strong.

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